Tchalenko Umbrellas bowl

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Tchalenko Umbrellas bowl - 6" (152 mm) diameter, 2½" (63 mm) high.

Janice Tchalenko was born in Rugby, Warwickshire in 1942. She studied
at Putney School of Art and Harrow School of Art. In the early 1970s she
started teach at the Croydon School of Art and the Camberwell School of
Art. She specialized in undecorated domestic stoneware and developed a reputation
as a highly competent thrower.

In the late 1970s she discovered she also had a talent for decoration
and started making high-fired stoneware with bright and colourful designs.
She became a tutor at the Royal College of Art in 1981 and this was shortly
followed by two exhibitions - one with John Hinchcliffe the textile designer
and the other as a one-woman show at the Blum Helman Gallery in New York
- that established her as one of the top British potters.

Around the same time her association with Dartington Pottery started. She has
provided many designs for the pottery and is now their principal designer.
Her innovative work continues to develop in an inventive and original way.

The Dartington Pottery Training Workshop, now known as Dart Pottery or
Dartington Pottery, was set up in 1975 in South Devon. David Leach had the idea of forming a
'community workshop' in 1972. His father had worked at the site in the 1930s. Marianne De Trey worked there until
the early 1980s.

The pottery was bought out by Peter Cook, Stephen Course and Peter Hazell
in 1984, and is now run by Sue Cook and Stephen Course, who employ around
fifteen people. Janice Tchalenko
and Tavs Jorgensen have strong connections, providing designs to augment
those that originate from within the company.

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